Jon Lindstrom, who plays Kevin Collins on General Hospital, is returning to the soap opera. The actor recently opened up about his return to the show and why he left it in the first place.
Here’s what the General Hospital actor said.
Jon Lindstrom says his General Hospital return is like ‘coming back to see old friends’
Jon Lindstrom joined General Hospital (GH) as Dr. Kevin Collins in 1993. Since then, he has been a recurring character on the show. However, Lindstrom left GH in 2024 to work on CBS’s Beyond the Gates (BTG) as Joey Armstrong. Now, more than a year later, Lindstrom is returning to Port Charles.
The actor revealed to TV Insider that since both shows are filmed 2,000 miles apart, it was “difficult to find the time” to accommodate both on his schedule. He admitted that he chose BTG over GH simply because of his character’s screen time.
“In all fairness to me, it had whittled down to about one or two shows a month, so Kevin had been fairly inactive for a long time,” he told the outlet. “I haven’t seen him have a really active story since the show Port Charles, or unless Ryan [Chamberlain, Kevin’s twin] was around, so it was kind of a no-brainer.”
The soap opera star revealed that Frank Valentini, GH’s executive producer, reached out to him several times to check if he could make an appearance on the show. Lindstrom admitted to being open to filming both, but the distance between the filming locations held him back. While they struggled to make it work in the past, the writers ensured that it was worthwhile this time.
“To their credit, they came to me and said, ‘What if we stack a bunch of shows up over a couple of days? Will that be worth your while to make the trip out?” Lindstrom recalled. “And the short answer is, ‘Yes, of course.’ Besides, I think Genie [Francis, Laura Collins] is getting tired of talking to a disembodied Kevin on the phone.”
After returning to the GH set, Lindstrom expressed his excitement about working with familiar faces again. He also said that slipping back into Kevin’s mindset was like “putting on a comfortable old suit.”
Jon Lindstrom will return to the show during the December 2 episode.
